Cobaltdream:
You may well be right, and it is a mammouth job. I did not mean to imply you and/or renderosity's programmers are not knoledgable or that they are lazy. I know nothing about database programming- got me there.So if the powers that be say its not doable - so be it.  However, to conclude  that  I know about  "making computers do something" as much as I know about  "making bathrooms appear"   is a bit of a leap.
As it happens, I have been in scientific programming for a year or two (well realy several decades)
and in any program I worked with, from fortran to C++,  it would be a reasonably easy thing to do.
Maybe  database managment is not as flexible or as advanced. You have my full sympathy. If this kind of task is a major undertaking - wouldnt touch this field with a ten foot pole.

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